Pri serv more than a month. The gay songs – om dis hs to club classics – are perfect for Pri year-round.
Contents:
- FROM YMCA TO BLOOM: CHARTG THE EVOLUTN OF THE GAY ANTHEM
- THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
- CHER ‘BELIEVE’ AT 20: THE STORY BEHD THE WORLD’S MOST ENDURG GAY ANTHEM
FROM YMCA TO BLOOM: CHARTG THE EVOLUTN OF THE GAY ANTHEM
From Lady Gaga and Christa Aguilera, to Elton John and Gloria Gaynor, we rank the 50 most spiratnal LGBTQ+ songs to uplift the queer muny * gay anthems 2018 *
Three inic gay anthems turn 40 this year: Sylvter’s You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real), Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive and the Village People’s YMCA.
The 2009 book Queer by Simon Gage, Lisa Richards and Howard Wilmot lists 10 thematic creria for gay anthems: “a big-voiced diva”, “overg hardship love”, “you are not alone”, “throw your r away”, “hard-won self-teem”, “unashamed sexualy”, “search for acceptance”, “torch song for the world-weary”, “love nquers all” and “no apologi”.
THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
Gay pop n now, like never before, be both mastream and sexy: Troye Sivan’s Bloom is a thly veiled scriptn of losg his virgy, begng wh the playground chant of “Take a trip to my garn / I’ve got so much to show you” before the chos has him repeat, tong hard on every tough snare beat: “I bloom, I bloom, jt for you”. Compare that wh Bronski Beat’s Smalltown Boy, an 80s gay anthem all about havg to pe opprsn. Janelle Monáe’s Make Me Feel, meanwhile, is a bisexual update of Prce’s Kiss, wh a central rea – “That’s jt the way you make me feel / So real, so good, so fuck’ real” – payg homage to Sylvter’s earlier gay anthem.
CHER ‘BELIEVE’ AT 20: THE STORY BEHD THE WORLD’S MOST ENDURG GAY ANTHEM
Usg terviews to -sign fans’ terpretatns of the lyrics, all three acts have cemented the songs’ stat as gay anthems. ” It is remiscent of gay in Lana Del Rey’s morbid attu, and post-Aids crisis gay anthems past that spoke about ath: Ja Jackson’s Together Aga, TLC’s Waterfalls, Pet Shop Boys’ Beg Borg, Gee Michael’s J to a uld jt be the more playful e of the word ath: when somethg is so good mak you jt “die”?